TO BE POSTED ON THE PHIL 410 GOPOST SITE BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON WEDNESDAY
OCT. 24.YOU CAN LINK TO THE GOPOST SITE
FROM THE PHIL 410 COURSE WEB SITE.ALL ASSIGNMENTS SHOULD BE POSTED AS COMMENTS ON
A SINGLE CONVERSATION THAT I HAVE STARTED, "ORIGINAL POSITION
ASSIGNMENT".TO POST YOUR
ASSIGNMENT ON THAT CONVERSATION, FIND THE LAST MESSAGE ON THE THREAD AND THEN
PASTE YOUR ASSIGNMENT INTO THE "ADD TO THIS CONVERSATION" PANE.ANYONE WHO STARTS A NEW CONVERSATION WILL GET
NO CREDIT FOR THE ASSIGNMENT.(IF YOU
MISTAKENLY BEGIN A NEW CONVERSATION, JUST REPOST YOUR ANSWER AS PART OF THE
CONVERSATION I STARTED.)I expect a good answer to this assignment to
be ABOUT 300 words in length.

(a) Give an
example of a right you propose for adoption behind the Veil of Ignorance in the
Original Position?(b) Explain the right so that we can understand what you are advocating and (c) explain
your reasons in a way that shows you understand how to argue behind the veil of
ignorance.Unless you are the first to
post an answer to this question, your answer should show that you are familiar
with previous answers—perhaps by explaining how your proposal differs from
previous answers or by explaining why you disagree with previous answers. (You
cannot just copy Rawls's principles or a principle proposed by someone else in
the class!) You must be present for the class discussion on Thursday Oct. 25 to
receive full credit for your homework (unless the absence is excused). You need
not develop your principles from scratch. You may suggest modifications to a
principle proposed by someone else. But you may not take Rawls as an authority
on the Original Position—that is, you should not assume that his two principles
of justice would be agreed to in the Original Position.Also, you are not limited to one message. You
are required to send one message, but I encourage you to participate in a
discussion of potential principles for adoption in the Original Position. We
will continue that discussion in class.If you have objections to the possibility of the Original Position
thought experiment, temporarily set them aside and try to do the assignment
anyway.It may be that trying to conduct
the thought experiment yields interesting results even if it is, strictly
speaking, impossible to actually do it.

THIS
ASSIGNMENT WILL SET THE STAGE FOR A CLASS FIELD TRIP BEHIND THE VEIL OF
IGNORANCE TO THE ORIGINAL POSITION ON THURSDAY, OCT. 25.PLEASE READ ALL THE POSTED ANSWERS TO THE
ASSIGNMENT ON THURSDAY BEFORE COMING TO CLASS.IN CLASS, IT WILL BE ASSUMED THAT EVERYONE IS FAMILIAR WITH THOSE
POSTINGS.TO GET FULL CREDIT FOR THE
ASSIGNMENT, YOU MUST BE IN CLASS FOR THE DISCUSSION, UNLESS YOUR ABSENCE IS
EXCUSED.